The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-15
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\ REPLY 70 JUDGE FERGUSON, N,

a REPLY TO JUDGE FERGUSON
!, by Hon. T. Il. Carskadou, Who Attempts to
Show the Necessity for q Distinct Prohi-
bition Party In West virsinia-Ths 4
Amendment Campaign Next Year.
70 ts Editor Of M In.ellica,eer. I, II.
stR:-1 believe In war It Is considered
good generalship to uncover the ensmy's
heaviest guns. I may, therefore. coDRrat.
ulate myself tina. In drawing tho fire Of
Judge Ferguson l have uncovered the
heaviest antl.third party gun and roused
''she brainiest'' man In West Virginia.
While It may look like temerity in me
with my little sling to go out to meet this
great giant, yet feeling that politically on
the ''aolid rock I stand" while t'all other
ground Is sinking land, )" and having from
infancy been taught by my scotch.Irish
father that a man in the right was host
within himaelf, and believing this, I aucr,l ac.
cept the challenge. 5J $500 80.
And now, as the INTELLIaHNCnR com.
mended the reading ofevery line OF Judge
ferguson's article, may I not ask your in.
telligent readers to extend, to me the sans
compliment In reading my reply which,
6ut Tor my absence on tho hustings, would
have been made ere this. s} l regret that
to meet and answer the. Judges many
charges and specifications, makes nv re-.
ply longer than I wished but I shall not
make 1t like Butler said Bingham tried to
make his johnson impeachment speech
immortal by making 1t eternal. ~ 937,T.t;s
While may grant for argument's sake
that It 10 possible that the nomination Of .
Third party candidates may possibly loae
the amendment the votes OF a few men who
care more for party than principle, I shall +
try to show that the failure to nominate
and continue the organization of that
party on the part Of those who belieye Al
do would be treachery to the real inter.
ests Of Prohibition In West Virginia and 7
the whole country. And pray tell us by,
what logic, fairness or Justice Won claim
tho right to nominate candidates to repre- !
sent and execute the wishes Of partiea
without principles and dony the same
privilege to party with principles? I? 1T
seems clear to us that the State and nation
would be the gamer II you would practice
what you preach. Suppose you show yourI
consistency by leaving OF this time, ,for the Z
sake Of the Amendment, your DemocraticS \
nominations and advise all Democrats to !
vote for the Amendment. We are as cer-
talnly party as yours, and in the true
sense the only national non.sectionals
party Of the country, and should, for the !
way. ). 81 F3iiF 3ii5fF sII,,gs
Jefferson Davis, in his pro.lioupor letter
TO Lubbock, OF Texas, during their heated
amendment campaign, repeated the old
saying mat the world is governed too
much, h,rwhich is not now nor ever was
true. Had he said the world, especially
this country, is legislated too much, he
would have been correct. Legislation
tIsmpled upon and unenforced breeds
contempt for all law, and such legislation
rather hinders than helps the cause in
whose interest it is enacted. > And it was
the appreciation Of this truth that impelled
that able rum and beer organ, the Cincin-s
natl Commercial Gaatte, unwittingly to
answer the temperance people of, Ohio
who were urging the submission OF tho
amendment with this significant inquiry:
What will you have when you get the
amendment? VIII an amendment exc
cute Itself ?" The whole tenor of Judge
terguaon'a article lis a. complete answer
that 1t won't execute itself, and that
neither Of tho old parties can or will
execute it. h lliG !!;;5 5ts =.
Knowing full well, au he must, that II
adopted 1t will be at the mercy Of theae
| very tTeacherous temperance friends in
both the old parties, who, the Judge re-
peatedly declares, care more for party than
temperance, and who he makes bold to
assert will to a man vote against 1t il It
endangers the election OF their party can
didates--thus subjscting the amendment,
to the danger OF becoming by.word and
. reproach before q party can be organized
for its enforcement. iil2555 ~ a.
The Judge is logiclan. Will he tell
your intelligent readers how parties that
are too cowardly and corrupt Of and within
themselves to embody in their platforms
and honestly advocate and adopt the
amendment can enact and enforce legis-!!
lation made hereunder Do 81 men
gather grapes from thorns or figs from
thistles ?'sS "Or corrupt tree bear good
truit = Laws are made by legislatures.
Legislatures are composed Of men elected
10y parties, and both these old parties, as
| tho Judge admits, and as everybody
knows, are composed Of liquor men to so
large an extent, md are now go nearly
Iequal in numbers, that to ignore or insult
that vote means death sudden and COM;
| plete to either. Hence, to placate and
bold the liquor vote both ignore and re-
fuse even to endorse the amendment in
their platforms, and will Of course and OF
necessity, for the very same REASONS, re!use
to and bs incompetent for the enactment
and enforcement Of laws for its execution
and the virtual admission of this inability
is conclusive proof Of the necessity for a
| third party. VIII the Judge, or others who
may care to write on this subject, tell Us
what use there is for any party in this
country to-day, or at any time, or what
other issue there is before tho country at
this time that, viewed from moral, hnan-
cial, material rgovernmentals stand point,
does not pale oinsignifcsnce when COM
pared with the whitening, soul.destroying,
heaven.daring, law.defying, sabbath.dese-
Grating curse, the liquor traffic
This being true, and that other asser-
tion Of tho grand old philosopher.
Horace Greedy, equally true, that "'there
is no legitimate use ior any party but to
embody and give effect to enlightened
public sentiment, (the 'grandestS deflni-
ton of the need and use of party ever
| given), and statesmen, patriots aud phi-
losophers all over the country now agree-
ing that "the destruction of the rum traffic
is the great problem OF the hour; that lis
solution stands next on the worlds calen-
dar Of progress" III We believe that the
formation and organization OF party
upon this issue is an Heaven ordained ne
cessity, and consequently Chriatian duty.
And We further believe that parties that
stand or throw themselves in the way 81
| the onward progress Of this on.coming
host will bo trampled in the dust and re-.